Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I cannot live without books.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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